Millenovecentonovantadieci

Millenovecentonovantadieci is a 1998 satirical Italian film. It was shot on location in Sicily during the summer of 1998. The movie was written by Corrado Guzzanti and directed by Corrado de Marchi. It was never screened to public and to critics, because the studio determined that the movie wasn't commercial, and because of that it was declared that on 20 April 2000, it will be released on VHS tape, but once again the VHS tape was never sponsored or advertised because nobody wanted it to, plus the studio was really un-supportive about the movie, so just a few copies where made.
Plot
A 30-year-old man named Santini (Corrado Guzzanti) returns to the present from the year 2055, seeking political asylum. He meets Cantamagllia (Marco Marzocca), a Sicilian police officer, and informs him that in the year 2055 Italy has became a dystopian wasteland through media and government corruption.
Production
Origins
The motion picture is the adoption of the play Millenovecentonovantadieci, which was first preformed in a theater at Luca, after the tournée was finished, the official production started in the summer 1998, in Sicily. The movie was finished in November 1998, but after the movie was screened to the studio exclusives, they declared that the movie wasn't commercial, they stored the film reel with the negative somewhere in the studio and forgot the motion picture. After the motion picture was re-discovered, in sometime in 1999 or 2000, the studios decided to give it a chance and by transferring it on VHS tapes. But after falling to distribute it and finding advisers, the project was definitely abandoned, so just a few copies had been done. Sometime later, however, BUR released a new DVD set without having the movie, but the original video of the play, and a seventy pages long play and movie production book, plus a play script about the play and the movie, but again still without the original motion picture.
Releases
A few VHS copies of the film were produced in the year 2000, but none were publicly screened.
Trivia
*The movie was based on a play that Corrado Guzzanti starred in one year earlier.
*The movie has similarities with the American 2006 movie Idiocracy, both in the plot, and the movie run.
*Some shots in the movie used a Chroma key.
*A book is planned to be made, based on this movie
*The movie made zero profits.
*Today is considered a lost movie.
*The original play was directed by Massimo Piparo and not by Corrado de Marchi.

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